Waltzing The Wilarra

Next date: Saturday, 18 October 2025 | 08:00 PM to 10:45 PM

“ ... a highly evocative musical tale of love, jealousy, friendship and family. It is a beautiful, heartfelt production about love and loss.” - Australian Stage

From the producers of national tours of The Sapphires and The Sunshine Club comes a very special and entertaining night in the theatre.

Waltzing The Wilarra is written and composed by David Milroy, directed by Brittanie Shipway, and performed by a stellar cast including Lorinda May Merrypor (Juliet in & Juliet), Shaka Cook (Hamilton), and Lisa Maza (Stingers), backed by a live band.

Against a backdrop of curfews and the fear of arrest, white and black manage to form their own club where they can forget their worries and experience rare happy times - and, with a little luck ... romance.

Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, our characters meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomping ground.

Dark secrets and ghosts that have lingered for more than half a century are revealed, and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry.

Acknowledgements

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.